readlines() question

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <8hra5t$mfi$1 at pulp.srv.ualberta.ca>,
L Stewart  <liam at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, when something like the following is used,
>
>contents = open('file').readlines()
>
>is 'file' closed after readlines() finishes? If not, is it possible to
>somehow get either the file descriptor or the file object of the opened
>file? Thanks,

Yes, it's closed.  The anonymous object created by open() gets
deallocated after the assignment; part of the cleanup is to silently
call close().
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